Can You Go By The Numbers?

LETTERS FROM READERS

May 26, 2000

THANKS, ORLANDO Sentinel, for running your article about "designer drugs." It's about time the news media started exposing the "war crimes" being committed against the American people. It is even scarier to watch the televised news media jump on the government bandwagon, encouraging the frightened public willingly to give up constitutional rights in the name of this war.

The "war on drugs" campaign is destroying the family institution: With 2 million people in prison, half for drug charges, imagine how many families have become impoverished and stigmatized as a result. Those who support this war will do anything, including manipulating the numbers in their stats, to ensure holding on to their power-wielding, money-hungry war.

The Libertarian Party is the only "party of principle" that recognizes this war as a chance for the government to take more power away from the citizens of this country. It's time to start treating this as a national health issue and not a war.